shright

English

Etymology

From Middle English, preterite of shriek or shrike.

Verb

shright

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of shriek
2. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of shritch

Noun

shright (plural shrights)

1. (obsolete) A shriek or shrieking; sobbing.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     cruell Sprights, / That with their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights, / They made the further shore resounden wide [...].